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Elastic can help us understand the data that impacts our daily lives and guides our decisions. Learn how one Elastic employee transformed data into something that provides invaluable insight and answers common questions in the veteran community. - Read more

Learn what attackers scanned for last month so you can tune your defenses. - Read more

Artwork by Hugh D’Andrade Peter Eckersley, a Let’s Encrypt co-founder, passed away unexpectedly on September 2nd from complications of cancer treatment. As an incredibly kind, bright, and energetic person, he was a beloved member of the community of people working to make the Internet a better place. He played an important role in the founding...

This month, Let’s Encrypt is turning on new infrastructure to support revoking certificates via Certificate Revocation Lists. Despite having been largely supplanted by the Online Certificate Status Protocol for over a decade now, CRLs are gaining new life with recent browser updates. By collecting and summarizing CRLs for their users, browsers are making reliable revocation of certificates a reality,...

Let’s Encrypt has been running a Certificate Transparency (CT) log since 2019 as part of our commitment to keeping the Web PKI ecosystem healthy. CT logs have become important infrastructure for an encrypted Web 1, but have a well-deserved reputation for being difficult to operate at high levels of trust: Only 6 organizations run logs that are currently considered...

Most of the time, people think about using Let’s Encrypt certificates to encrypt the communication between a website and server. But connections that need TLS are everywhere! In order for us to have an Internet that is 100% encrypted, we need to think beyond the website. MongoDB’s managed multicloud database service, called Atlas, uses Let’s Encrypt certificates to secure the...

On April 13, 2022, the Real World Crypto steering committee presented the Max Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography to Let’s Encrypt. The following is the speech delivered by our Executive Director, Josh Aas upon receiving the award. We’d like to thank our community for supporting us and invite you to join us in making the Internet more secure...

ISRG's pragmatic, public-interest approach to Internet security has fundamentally changed the web at an astonishing scale and pace. —Michael Brennan, Ford Foundation The Internet has considerable potential to help build a more just, equitable, and sustainable world for all people. Yet for everyone online—and indeed the billions not yet online—barriers to secure and privacy-respecting...

A deconstruction of FluBot 5.0’s new communication protocol and other capabilities FluBot uses to hide, making it difficult for researchers and security solutions to detect. - Read more

OVHcloud, the largest hosting provider in Europe, has used Let’s Encrypt for TLS certificates since 2016. Since then, they’ve provisioned tens of millions of certificates for their shared hosting customers. We often get asked about how large integrations work and their best practices so this will be the first in a series of blog posts we’ll publish on the...